Carn to Truagh
The approximately four-meter-high stone hill Carn at Truagh (also English Cairn of woe or Cairn of Sorrow called) on the m-high Knocklayd (Irish 514 Cnoc Leithid ) in the townland of Tavnaghboy near Armoy in County Antrim in Northern Ireland has about 20, 0 meter diameter. It is listed as a Scheduled Monument .
The cairn on Knocklayd almost certainly contains a Passage Tomb , but there are no external signs of its internal structure and no excavation. It is made of white quartz covered with a layer of peat and grass. On the south and west sides, the prevailing winds have exposed the stones of the hill and part of the curb ring. The curb ring is not formed by stones set in the ground, but by stones that were placed against the stone mound.
Nearby are the menhirs of Duncarbit .
Individual evidence
- ↑ This also applies to the comparably large Cairn on the Knocknarea in County Sligo
Web links
- Entry Carn to Truagh in the Northern Ireland Sites and Monuments Record on the website of the country's environmental protection agency ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
- Description hill engl.
- Images of the Cairns
Coordinates: 55 ° 9 ′ 42.5 ″ N , 6 ° 15 ′ 1 ″ W.